“There is no reality but God,
says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.”

— Rumi

"The Grasses" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 44
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

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Iranian poet 1207–1273

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